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This book aims at providing an empirical understanding of the main drivers affecting investors¿ preferences in financing new ventures through equity crowdfunding (ECF) and determining fundraising campaign success. ECF is increasing in prominence as a route for new ventures in obtaining external financial resources. To raise capital, entrepreneurs are required to convey quality signals of their proposals with real-time information and knowledge sharing. This book advances knowledge in entrepreneurial finance by investigating the factors that affect individuals¿ decisions to participate in ECF. The authors adopt a data mining approach to extract publicly available information from a multitude of crowdfunding platforms across different countries, producing a unique dataset. The book uses an innovative hybrid analysis to generate knowledge patterns creating data-driven models on one hand, and on the other test research hypotheses adoptingstatistical models to investigate empirical evidence in line, or in contrast, with the extant literature. The book also integrates organizational theories to examine the extent to which ECF platform managers follow a strategy of isomorphism in their choice of information disclosure. The final part of the book discusses how signals are interpreted by investors, how these affect financing preferences, and ultimately the successful completion of a fundraising campaign. The book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in entrepreneurial finance, FinTech, and investment behaviour.

Escape the rat race and create your ideal future today! Get ready to maximize your potential, find a meaningful purpose, and create the fulfilling life you've always dreamed of with Rat Race Reboot.

This book details the exploratory stages of a research study that produced a framework for entrepreneurial endeavour and enterprise. It presents an unfolding discussion, throughout its chapters, regarding the entrepreneurial nature potential within us all, and the modes by which those involved in such activity, and associated innovative discoveries, can be informed by the skills and experience already in their possession.The book also provides, through its structure, a tool by which the entrepreneur, innovator, educator, student or those yet-to-be involved in the entrepreneurial arena can plan for the yet-to-be known eventualities of such endeavour.The parabolic scramble framework is backgrounded across the discussion of entrepreneurship and the necessity to deal with the tangible and intangibility of any venture, as well as other considered aspects that the entrepreneurial journey engenders.

In this witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship, Rizwan Virk debunks misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Startup Myths and Models is an ideal companion for readers from those just embarking on the startup life to those looking for their next adventure.

In the Problem Hunting, Brian Long offers a tactical approach to building a tech company based on his experience growing a multi-billion dollar software business and selling another business to Twitter for nine figures.

From the heart of South African born entrepreneur, David Sand, comes a compelling and authentic story about overcoming crushing defeat to re-emerging and building a multinational business, in a way that honours faith, family and community.As you journey through these pages, you will discover how David Sand founded his business in the same year Dr Nelson Mandela birthed the new nation. But, like building a nation, his journey was far from easy, confronting him with crushing betrayals, failures and rejections to become the impactful and conscious leader he is today.From his early foundations in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, and Training to building the global success of Uwin Iwin and captaining the international professional organisation SITE, David leads us through challenges with an authentic vulnerability that is both humbling and inspiring.Taking heart and courage to the next level, this book shows how this businessman took hold of his second chance, using his experiences and faith to make positive impacts on his family, company, clients, community, worldwide network, and beyond.If you have ever stumbled on your journey in pursuing your dreams and ambitions, this book will be your beacon of hope to keep on dreaming, working hard, and keep winning.

Live the life you were meant to leadIn this, her latest ground-breaking contribution to the art and science of Creative Living, Dr. Adrienne MacIain reveals the secret to sparking genius: unleashing the power of your natural creative flow so you can create authentic value prolifically and continuously, with ease and enjoyment.As game-changing as it is entertaining, Spark Genius demystifies the process of inspiration, ideation, and creation, reacquaints readers with their own natural cycles of productivity (or rather, processtivity), and lays out a clear, step-by-step path from frustration to playful innovation for all.Readers will learn:How to unleash your creative flow to heal from burnout and create authentic value for those who matter most (yourself included!)What genius really is and how to spark it in yourself and othersHow to keep your inspiration antenna aligned and attuned to the abundance networkThe simple four-part process (DOER) which allows you to create the way nature createsIf you long to shift out of "strive" and into "thrive," out of blockage and into flow, this book found you at the perfect time to help you heal from burnout, reconnect with Source, realign to your natural creative process, unleash your uniquely valuable energy, and shine as the STAR you are, across every aspect of your life!Order your copy NOW!Early Praise for Spark Genius: "If you ever wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, 'Can I ever find my way back to a life that feels true and fulfilling?' ... this book can help. I'm struck by the practicality, humor, and depth of this book and the practices that you'll find in it. Do you want to tap into your inherent inner genius that can guide you into everything that matters to you? I recommend that you start here."Jacob Nordby, author of Blessed Are the Weird - A Manifesto for Creatives and The Creative Cure - How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

Jeff Rohde is an accomplished freelance writer and copywriter who regularly earns six figures per year from his craft. With over a decade of experience in the industry, Jeff has worked with clients across a diverse range of fields, including real estate, finance, investment, insurance, and accounting. Jeff's professional writing career began with a successful blog about real estate investing, which caught the attention of major clients and led to regular contributions to financial websites. As his reputation grew, Jeff expanded his client base and continued to hone his skills as a versatile and expert wordsmith.In "$100,000 per Year as a Freelance Writer: It's Possible, and Here's How," Jeff draws on his extensive experience to share practical insights and valuable tips that aspiring writers will find beneficial. He emphasizes the importance of building a personal brand, marketing oneself effectively, and fostering strong relationships with clients. The book contains over 58,000 words of actionable information in 15 chapters:Introduction: Who is Jeff Rohde?Chapter 1: The Perks of Being a Freelance WriterChapter 2: From 9 to 5 to Six Figures: How To Transition From Your Day Job Into a High-Paying Freelance Writing CareerChapter 3: Choosing Your Perfect Writing NicheChapter 4: Why Work for Cheap? How To Find Clients Who Are Willing To Pay What You're WorthChapter 5: Landing Your First Writing Gig: 10 Steps for BeginnersChapter 6: Should You Work With an Agency or Go Directly to the Client?Chapter 7: How To Find High-Paying Writing Jobs and ClientsChapter 8: Fighting Lowball Offers and Negotiating Better Rates for Your WritingChapter 9: Tips for Keeping Your Clients Begging for MoreChapter 10: Simple Mindset Shifts To Help You Handle Rejection and CriticismChapter 11: Time Management Strategies for Freelance WritersChapter 12: Growing Your Freelance Writing BusinessChapter 13: You're Not Superhuman: How to Maintain a Healthy Work/Life BalanceChapter 14: Diversifying Your Income: Why It's Important and How to Do ItChapter 15: Why Freelance Writers Need Systems to Earn a Six-Figure IncomeConclusion: Secrets of the $100,000 Club: Joining the Elite Rank of High-Earning WritersJeff's portfolio is a testament to his expertise and versatility as a writer. He has tackled complex topics such as real estate investing, retirement planning, and accounting principles, and has crafted engaging copy for a variety of audiences. From blog posts and editorials to sales copy and white papers, Jeff has consistently provided high-quality content that resonates with readers and delivers results for his clients. If you're looking to take your writing career to the next level, Jeff Rohde is a trusted advisor who can help you achieve your goals. He is among the top 3% of performers on Upwork and has been awarded the Top Rated Plus badge.

Companies are constantly faced with the challenge of improving their performance in an increasingly unstable and risky environment. The current financial and economic crisis has become a confirmation of this evolution and is a real vector of awareness on the importance of good governance for the company. In such a context, managers feel the need to reassure shareholders as well as the company's stakeholders by including management control and internal audit in their governance policy. Management control operates in the same field as internal audit. Indeed, management control contributes to improving efficiency within the entity and to the achievement of objectives. While the internal auditor makes a judgment on the effectiveness of the management control to participate in its improvement...

Dieses Buch beschreibt Lebensmitteltrends aus den Themenkomplexen Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung. Es werden anschaulich aktuelle Themen für die Lebensmittelindustrie und dem Lebensmittelhandel behandelt. Die Fallstudien wurden von Masterstudenten des Studiengang Lebensmittelwirtschaft der Hochschule Trier im Fach Unternehmensführung bearbeitet und präsentiert.

Challenge-based research focuses on addressing societal and environmental problems. One way of doing so is by transforming existing businesses to profitable ventures through co-creation and co-evolution. Drawing on the resource-based view, this book discusses how social challenges can be linked with the industrial value-chain through collaborative research, knowledge sharing, and transfer of technology to deliver value. The work is divided into three sections: Part 1 discusses social challenges, triple bottom line, and entrepreneurship as drivers for research, learning, and innovation while Part 2 links challenge-based research to social and industrial development in emerging markets. The final section considers research-based innovation and the role of technology, with the final chapter bridging concepts and practices to shape the future of society and industry. The authors present the RISE paradigm, which integrates people (society), planet (sustainability),and profit (industry and business) as critical constructs for socio-economic and regional development. Arguing that the converging of society and industry is essential for the business ecosystem to stay competitive in the marketplace, this book analyzes possible approaches to linking challenge-based research with social and industrial innovations in the context of sectoral challenges like food production, housing, energy, biotechnology, and sustainability. It will serve as a valuable resource to researchers interested in topics such as social challenges, innovation, technology, sustainability, and society-industry linkage.

Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf die Rolle des Beirats oder ähnlicher Governance-Gremien in Familienunternehmen und speziell auf Prozesse und Themen von strategischer Bedeutung. Es umfasst alle relevanten Themen, die regelmäßig behandelt werden müssen, wie Strategieentwicklung, Finanzmanagement und Führung. Zu jedem Thema werden die Vor- und Nachteile herausgearbeitet. Dies ist eines der wenigen Bücher, das sich mit Familienunternehmen befasst, von den Governance-Systemen bis hin zur Rolle der Führungskräfte. Die von den Autoren sorgfältig gesammelten Beispiele und die eingehende Diskussion der Themen bieten dem Leser wertvolle Einblicke, um die Wirksamkeit der Unternehmensführung zu bereichern.

Das Handbuch digitale Gesundheitswirtschaft liefert eine qualitätsgeprüfte umfassende Übersicht zu Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Transformation des Gesundheitswesens. Dabei werden Technologien, regulatorischer Rahmen, innovative Geschäftsmodelle und Einsatzbereiche jeweils mit branchenrelevanten Fallbeispielen ergänzt. Sowohl ökonomische als auch versorgungsrelevante Aspekte werden diskutiert - anhand aktueller wissenschaftlicher internationaler Studien.

Managing School Human Resources Effectively in Cameroon will be a useful guide for those who want to strengthen their capacities in good school governance. This book which will serve for several years has a triple purpose. To know how to implement training activities for school leaders; To enable them to fully play their role in a context of educational decentralisation; To know how to put in place strategies for the professionalisation of school leaders. To this end, they must: appropriate texts on personnel management; know how to manage time effectively without being distracted from their essential tasks; know how to manage conflicts in the school environment; acquire the managerial qualities of a good head teacher; and be able to carry out actions aimed at professionalizing the function of school leaders.

This timely and comprehensive text focuses on important recent advances in applied sustainability in the baking industry, connecting all the current methods and strategies into a single book. Those involved in bread production will find the latest developments at the theoretical and practical levels, including information and communication requirements, reporting and regulatory aspects, economic and environmentally sustainable business models, supply chain management, life cycle assessment, product and organizational environmental footprints and more. For small bakery business owners to industry leaders and policymakers, governmental authorities, regulatory authorities and standardization bodies, this book offers a compilation of technical information about sustainability in the market for the bakery sector. Baking Business Sustainability Through Life Cycle Management begins by presenting basic information on the life cycle assessment and product environmental footprint of the bread industry, proposing an analysis of sustainability assessment using environmental and social footprints and providing recommendations for integral optimization of economic and environmental performance. A second section focuses on sustainability in the baking industry, providing a regional focus from Europe to the Americas to Africa and beyond. The third section takes a deep look at economic feasibility and efficiency in the bread industry, including the economic viability of different scenarios for bread-based value chains, and forming efficient business models for bakeries. A final section zeroes in on the most up-to-date innovations in the current bakery industry, including the impact of bakery innovation on business resilience growth, commercial systems, and new business models in regional food systems for farmers and companies, based on multi-actor approach. Innovations within the bakery industry are at an all-time high, with new sustainability and economic models being introduced, along with associated market risks. This timely and ambitious text aims to cover all the most recent advances and methods for successful incorporation into bakery businesses.

This book provides state-of-the-art descriptions of smart service innovations in the industry, supported by novel scientific approaches. It gathers findings and insights presented at the fourth Smart Services Summit, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in October 2021, which primarily focused on how smart services have enabled companies to adapt during and to the COVID-19 pandemic.The book includes examples of remote and collaborative working that actively involve customers in service processes, requiring a change in mindset for more traditional firms. Moreover, it explores how services can be delivered faster and more affordable with the aid of new technologies and in collaboration with the customers, leading to new value propositions and business models and thus an evolution of smart services. Given its scope, the book offers an essential guide for practitioners and advanced students alike.

The edited volume presents the conference proceedings from the ¿Sustainability, Economics, Innovation, Globalisation and Operational Psychology Conference 2023¿ (SEIGOP 2023), organized by the Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA) at James Cook University, Singapore. This edited volume places the highly dynamic, but also, jeopardized climatological ¿ geographical region of the Tropics centre stage. The region is developing rapidly, with significant progress being made through the development of innovative technologies. The Tropics represent a region in which people live amid the greatest level of biodiversity anywhere on the planet. Nonetheless, propelled by rapid population growth, the Tropics is a region on the rise, with higher living standards and increased levels of international trade and investment. Densely populated emerging countries like India, Indonesia and Nigeria will be among the largest economies of the world by the end of the century. These upward socioeconomic trends are compromised by the impact of climate change on the Tropics¿ biodiversity. Such developments have forced policymakers, businesses, and local communities to search for more sustainable and creative ways to live and work. For these reasons, this edited volume presents theory-driven conceptual, qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods studies on the impact of innovation-driven businesses on the complex interplay of socio-cultural, economic, and environmental factors in the Tropics.

Entrepreneurship Development in the Balkans directly engages questions of innovation and risk management within various types of entrepreneurship, including female, social, migrant, and corporate entrepreneurship in the context of the Balkans.

"Brilliant Digital Marketing: An Entrepreneur's Guide" provides a comprehensive guide to digital marketing for entrepreneurs. Brilliant Digital Marketing: An Entrepreneur's Guide covers the importance of digital marketing, including its ability to reach a wider audience, cost-effectiveness, targeted marketing, measurable results, and improved customer engagement. The book gives an overview of digital marketing strategies and techniques, such as content marketing, search engine optimization and marketing, social media marketing, email marketing, affiliate marketing, video marketing, and mobile marketing.The book delves into the fundamentals of digital marketing, including its tactics, history, and advantages, as well as the challenges of digital marketing, digital marketing tools and technologies, and best practices. Future trends in digital marketing are also explored.The book goes into detail about different digital marketing strategies, such as content marketing, SEO, SEM, and the marketing mix, which includes product, price, promotion, place, and people. It also tells you how to make a digital marketing plan, set goals and objectives, do a context analysis, find competitors and potential partners, and divide up marketing costs. The book gives information about the development, application, and management phases of a digital marketing campaign, as well as skills for managing client relationships. It also talks about different digital marketing tools, how to measure how engaged customers are, and how to evaluate the market using metrics. Overall, this book gives entrepreneurs a complete guide to digital marketing, from the basics to planning and executing a digital marketing campaign. It also gives an overview of different digital marketing tools and the latest digital marketing trends. It is an essential resource for any entrepreneur looking to maximise their digital marketing efforts and improve customer engagement.

Building a business is hard work, but it's even harder if you're not passionate about what you're doing. That's why the Gita's teachings on Dharma are so relevant to entrepreneurship. Dharma is all about finding your purpose and living your life in a way that aligns with your values. When you can apply this principle to your work, you'll find that building a business becomes a lot more meaningful and fulfilling. Of course, finding your purpose is easier said than done. That's why the Gita also teaches us the importance of self-reflection and introspection. By taking the time to reflect on our values and motivations, we can gain a better understanding of what drives us and what we want to achieve. This can help us make better decisions in our businesses and create a more authentic and purpose-driven brand. Another key lesson from the Gita is the importance of ethical leadership. In today's world, where we see so many examples of unethical behavior in business, it's more important than ever to lead with integrity and moral courage. By being transparent, accountable, and socially responsible, we can build businesses that not only create wealth but also contribute to the greater good. Ultimately, the principles of Business Entrepreneurship from the Gita and the rules of Dharma remind us that business is not just about making money. It's about creating something that has a positive impact on the world, and that aligns with our deepest values and aspirations. When we approach business in this way, we can find a sense of purpose and fulfillment that goes beyond mere financial success.

After watching her successful team be mercilessly gutted in a preventable round of layoffs, Rebecca Hoffman has decided she's done with the corporate world. Nothing excites her more than a challenge, and she sets off to find success in the entrepreneurial world.Now CEO of a burgeoning technology company, in addition to being a wife and mother, with all the ups and downs that entails, she's having more than a few moments of wondering if she made a mistake. What Rebecca could not have known was how scary it can be to work without a net. Responsible for making payroll for dozens of people while managing cashflow for a fledgling company, and balancing her family obligations, the pressure is on.When Rebecca faces the ultimate entrepreneurship crisis, she must utilize a loose network of acquaintances, past co-workers, and cheerleaders to save the entire company. Equal parts entrepreneurship fable and business handbook, the lessons in Fed-Up to Start-Up are timeless for women CEOs and aspiring entrepreneurs who struggle to balance life, business, and friendship.

Victoria Wieck details her journey starting a business from scratch and building it into a multi-million dollar success story. She offers practical, actionable, and accessible advice for starting your business, building it, avoiding the pitfalls, and making it successful.

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Achieve is a book designed with one purpose in mind; to take your amazing ideas from your head and bring them to this world by using easy to learn skills applied by only the highest Achievers.I was in a near fatal motorcycle accident, I've been on the edge of financial collapse, I suffered through a terrible divorce, the break-up of my dream family life and have been riddled with depression and anxiety.And for the longest time I thought that achieving important goals was only for other people who followed the rules, were more outgoing and people who knew how to finish.But then I started to study the path others took to achieve success and I realized that they shared many things in common. And that they each followed a process that created their own Achievement Formula. And I started to apply it.Once you have the process I personally use, you will find yourself with more confidence, more clarity, and able to act faster with less doubt, stress, or confusion.You'll learn The Truth About Overcoming Obstacles is BeliefIn Achieve I deliver you both the road map and the secrets that high achievers use to overcome whatever is in their way and achieve that next level of life.With this book you'll learn how to eliminate excuses and believe any idea is possible.You'll also gain THE ABILITY TO TAKE ACTION AND FOLLOW THROUGHAnd once you have that, you're ready for what might be the most important thing of all. CONFIDENCE THAT NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.In today's world, it's all about this one question: Do you have the ATTITUDE TO ACHIEVE?Most people never bother to find out what true achievement is ...much less take the time to cultivate the skills necessary to achieve their dreams.But it's not difficult ...and it can be mastered at any age and I give you the recipe to follow so you can have these skills by the time you are done reading Achieve.So as you can see, this is going to be MUCH than you're expecting.